Irresistibly and unaccountably drawn to painting after a career in law, academia, and business, Karen uses acrylics with ceramic and glass media on canvas to capture abstract scapes:  landscapes, townscapes, and mindscapes.  Intense coloration, touchable textures, curves, and circular motifs characterize much of her work, which ranges from small studies to larger diptychs and triptychs of abstract rural, mountain, and urban imagination. 

Recently she has created several multi-paneled works, each of which explores the concept of connection through fragmentation.  This approach is designed to capture physical complexity and reflect emotional intensity by inviting the viewer to focus on individual panels, on discrete combinations of panels, and ultimately on the artwork in its entirety, the greater whole elucidating the original parts piece-by-piece.

The earliest and largest of these works, Infinity, has grown to a 25-panel landscape – the result of Karen’s enduring curiosity in discovering what lies beyond each panel. Infinity is sometimes exhibited on the floor of a show, drawing remarks from visitors that this atypical perspective gives them a sense of mentally walking through the space as they engage with the mood and atmosphere of the work.